This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lee Berger is standing in a death trap, smiling. It is a hole in the ground about 25 miles northwest of Johannesburg ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Scientists used ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...